Mass Effect's Best Human Squadmates

I wouldn't complain if Bioware made her a squadmate. She could be the tech squadmate.

1. Zaeed
2. ME1 Ashley
3. Kasumi (despite really liking her I strangely never felt compared to use her beyond her LM)
4. James Vega
5. Cora
6. Liam

If it's a ranking you are after then here you go:

1. Miranda (I loved her backstory and her not actually taking or giving a shit about Shepard (but he/she grows on her of course!)...and I also tend to favor biotic companions (or tech-companions) over pure soldiers, which are mostly quite boring IMHO...exceptions so far? Garrus, Drak and Grunt!)

2. Cora (she reminds me of Miranda and with her name I wouldn't be surprised if she is kind of Miranda - just with a different "father" (TIM!))

3. Jack (like her backstory, too (even if I didn't much like her loyalty mission...too wet and broken a place...only Jacob's was worse in ME2 IMHO!) and she's another biotic!)

4. Zaed (sadly you could neither romance him nor have true conversations... )

5. Kaidan (another biotic and I could bond with him over Virmire (he's my survivor - a biotic is worth more than a pure soldier because those are as common as sand on most beaches, while biotics especially strong ones are RARE!))

6. Kasumi (loved the Greybox-Story! Didn't much like her in ME3 (*whine* "I don't want to fight again" *whine*))

7. Ashley (loved her poetry and her family stories! Didn't like her Xenophobia (despite her being half-way right, I mean the council does subjugate member-races - you aren't fully sovereign if you have an embassy there (you have to allow SPECTREs to snoop around - even in top-secret military places! - and you are bound by the Treaty of Farixen!))

8. James Vega (didn't like Mr. Gung-Ho much - he reminds me of a cliche Marine jarhead!)

9 Liam Costa (deals badly with stress (desecrates corpses within the first hour of the game by riddling them with bullets after they are clearly dead!), isn't actually all that funny, his loyalty mission is an utter desaster IMHO, not to mention needlessly dangerous (and his stupid civilian friends destroy a valuable resource in the end: That Kett ship - if they hadn't tampered with it it would NOT have exploded and S.A.M. could probably have hacked the fucking doors just fucking fine!))

10. Jenkins...sorry kiddo, we didn't get to know you really, so you get the bottom spot but at least he went out in a true LEEEEEEEROY JENKINS manner! (sorry, but he should have dropped into cover as soon as he saw those drones, but he was too shocked to move his ass it seems

Well there you have it

greetings LAX

Jamez because he's the homeboi.

Zaeed

Jack

Miranda

Kaidan [he fills the subordinate role perfectly]

Cause she was the second in command with a family name called Harper so i expected more than her story being all about:
i don't think Miranda or Ashley are anything special either though for the record and i still do think she is better than most video game characters. opinions vary and some of course prefers her the way she is and that's cool.

Manipulates who often shift emotionally?

Surprisingly, Cora does grow on you. She starts off a bit whiney about the rough life of an unwanted biotic and is a bit too much about huntress this and that. She idolizes a huntress commando, but in the middle of all that, you see she is just trying to find her way. She cares about people. She realizes that she's not a leader and that her being a follower is not a good thing. She is actually mostly really well written because of that. She gets a nice little arc and at the end, I personally find it hard to not like her. No idea about her romance. I might try it on another run, but I kind of like her as a close friend for both my ryders. She ends up coming off a bit like an older sister I think if you don't romance her. Or that is the vibe I got. It came across pretty well by the end of her cutscenes.

I'm just trying to get the sense of what the disappointment for her is. I'm not trying to insult. If the missed opportunity was her not being TIM's daughter then that more of a problem with expectation not with what's there for her. It's there any other missed opportunity then the players jumping the gun on what her past is?

None of the crew charaters are involved directly in the Major plots ME outside the pc, liara, Edi, and Mordon. That's also expecting too much.

Since they did it before, it is not too much expectations for me. also i didn't say many of the crews were involved either. some had their lives in our hands though (not in Andromeda i think).

ME1 Ashley, but not ME3. At least mods can fix the visual parts of that damage.

Zaeed Massani, because what could possibly be more important than Zaeed Massani not getting bested by some fucking kids' game?